Conference in progress - on Earth Day!

Margaret Atwood, The Art of Fiction No. 121 “Every novel is—at the beginning—the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.”

“All children ‘write.’ I suppose the real question is why do so many people give it up.” —Margaret Atwood

You can now major in a language without prior knowledge To stir interest, Finnish universities are admitting beginners to language majors.

#Finland: You can now major in a language without prior knowledge
To stir interest, Finnish universities are admitting beginners to language majors.
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#langsky

The Best Defense Against AI Cheating (opinion) … is a class worth taking.

The Best Defense Against AI Cheating

"War loves hunting down young men."
φιλεῖ γὰρ ἄνδρας πόλεμος ἀγρεύειν νέους.

Sophocles, Fr. 554, from The Men of Scyros

My colleague gave this apt definition of philology: Giving a text or manuscript to a philologist is like giving a pig carcass to a butcher, you end up with a ham.

I understand the sentiment, but feel just the opposite. AI is saturating every surface of students’ lives. What we have to offer them is not small tweaks to their engagements w the technology, but rather spaces separate from it via which they can develop their own critical faculties.

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|Akroterion Vol. 70 (2025) akroterion.journals.ac.za/pub/issue/vi... #openaccess @vanth.bsky.social

CfP: 4th International Classics Conference in Ghana (ICCG) - Classical Association of South Africa CfP: 4th International Classics Conference in Ghana (ICCG) Classics at the Crossroads University of Ghana, Legon 3–4 September 2026 Over the past decade, significant strides have been made to rethink ...

#CFP 4th International Classics Conference in Ghana (ICCG). Theme: Classics at the Crossroads - University of Ghana, Legon - 3–4 September 2026 - casa-kvsa.org.za/2026/03/cfp-... Due by May 15

‘The Persians’ by Aeschylus Presented in Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES – Under the auspices of the Greek Cultural Organization Nostos, part of celebrations of Greek Independence Day and the anniversary of the revolution launched on March 25, 1821, ‘The…

'‘The Persians’ by Aeschylus Presented in Buenos Aires'

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Are you a Woman in Classics (both terms broadly defined!)? If you’re not on this list, let me know and I’ll put you on!

Are you a person interested in Classics? You should follow this list for all the amazing women on it!!!

#ClassicsBluesky

forwarding – writing with other people’s texts We’ve probably all read papers where the writer has treated the literature as something to be surveyed and reported. the result often takes the shape of the dreaded laundry list, where the writer p…

This week I’m looking at forwarding, a key aspect of working with literatures patthomson.net/2026/03/30/f...

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Screenshot of a dictionary entry reading: γᾰλεώτης, ου, ὁ, gecko lizard, Ar. Nu. 173, Arist. Fr. 370. sword-fish, = ξιφίας, Plb. 34.2.12, Str. 1.2.15. weasel, Luc. VH 1.35; γ. γέρων (transl. by colore mustelino, Ter. Eun. 4.4.21 [689]) Men. 188.

Come on, lexicographers, just admit it when you've got no idea what a word actually means 😂

#ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Flat, arid area of desert with stones scattered across.

NEW Later Stone Age (c. 3000–2000 BP) open-air site in South Africa's arid Karoo.

Many new sites have been found in the semi-desert region, indicating it was a favoured locality, repeatedly occupied despite the harsh environment.

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🏺 #Archaeology

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Job alert! Our research focus area in Ancient Texts: Text, Context, and Reception has a vacancy for a postdoctoral research fellow position.

Classics, Ancient Greek, Latin, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Semitic Languages... All are welcome!

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And now you've given me another reason to respect his work! I didn't even think of the application to the arts beyond literature!

Today I learnt that Milman Parry, who changed the way we read Homeric epithets such as 'swift-footed Achilles' and 'bright-eyed Athena', died at the young age of 33. I wonder what Homeric studies would look like today if he had more time on earth.

Louis L’Amour

Louis L’Amour: “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” medium.com/go-into-the-... #writing #screenwriting

March 4-7 North-West University Potchefstroom, South Africa - Classical epic structures in non-epic literature from antiquity to the early modern period theology.nwu.ac.za/ancient-texts

Amo, Ergo Cogito: A Philosopher on Love as a Way of Seeing Love is a way of taking in the whole world as seen through the eyes of the beloved.

Love is a way of taking in the whole world as seen through the eyes of the beloved.

I'm so grateful and excited for this next journey!

"I developed a tolerance for what I did not understand, and then I gradually understood it. Once I did begin to understand, I felt an extraordinary desire to repeat the experience."

So relevant to learning to read in a new language too. Students need to persevere even when they do not understand.

"Women could even make a living from their expertise in training hawks. In the mid-13th century, a woman named Ymayna was the keeper of the Earl of Richmond’s hawks and hounds at Richmond Castle. In exchange for her expertise, she and her family were permitted to hold land nearby."

Nicole Loraux is one of my favourite academics!

Feb 5 online (4.30pm UK) JFF Project Euripides Byzantinus 'Euripides and the Middle Ages' seminar: Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol), Iphigenia in Aulis: Transmission and interpretation listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Teams email ugo.mondini@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

Artistic Director Michael Walling spoke to Culture Calling on why SUPPLIANTS OF SYRIA uses ancient theatre to confront today’s #RefugeeCrisis and why shared space matters now more than ever.

You have no idea. Apparently the other purpose of this exercise is to show us what students will find about us if they "ask chat".

Ice breaker activity at the first session of our academic induction programme? Type the name of your desk partner into ChatGPT and figure out what's true and what's not. Such an awful exercise - the organic conversations we had before the session were so much more interesting!